Palin takes a poke at PETA

[douglas9]

Having spent Thanksgiving watching turkeys being butchered, Sarah Palin spent Christmas squaring off with PETA. The animal rights group says that it's been receiving legal threats from the Alaskan governor after posting an online game inviting players to pelt John McCain’s former running mate with virtual snowballs. “In real life, the moose and other animals Ms. Palin blows to smithereens don't stand a chance,” writes PETA blogger Liz Graffeo. “This game is just a bit of harmless payback.”

Unfortunately, Palin’s peeps apparently didn’t see things that way: according to Graffeo, shortly after the game went live the group’s policy wing received “a Scrooge-like phone call” from the Palin camp threatening legal action if the game wasn’t removed immediately. The telephonic threats - which PETA ignored - were soon followed by a flurry of angry emails from Palin’s communications director, denying that any threats had been made and accusing the animal rights folks of playing fast-and-loose with the facts.

http://www.plentymag.com/blogs/political/2008/12/palin_takes_a_poke_at_peta.php

[hobbit709]

1. If there's one thing Palin is an expert at

It's playing fast and loose with the facts.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Uh, yeah. Sarah, your 15 minutes are up and you don't matter any more.

[Rob H.]

3. Maybe PETA should release another game

where you get to shoot packs of wild Palins from a helicopter and see if she likes that one better.

[Peregrine Took]

4. I'm DYING to have the rethugs hitch their wagon to her star!! Oh please do it!

What a beautiful smash and burn that would be.

[niyad]

5. as KO said after playing the turkey-slaughter video "where do I contribute? how much can I

contribute? can I contribute under multiple names?"

PLEASE, dear Goddess, make her the repuke nominee in 2012.

[rainbow4321]

6. Mudflats has the email exchange

BM is Palin's spokesperson, IN is PETA:

http://www.themudflats.net/2008/12/26/645/

BM: Your website claims we have threatened to sue you. What do you base this on? Be specific.

IN: Dear Mr. McAllister,

We base this on a phone call. Why don’t you ask in your office and be specific as to on what grounds you can sue us? We know that we can use the game as it’s pure parody. I thought people in Alaska had a sense of humor? Ingrid Newkirk

BM: That’s not very specific. Who called? Name and title given? Did you even attempt to verify it was genuine? Or are facts just cumbersome?

IN: Do they train you to be rude?

(snip)

You get the idea. And the Anchorage Daily News got this response from McAllister when they asked him about the exchange:

“The bottom line is that no lawsuit was threatened or is being considered concerning their silly on-line snowball game, and I am certain the call, if it even occurred, did not come from this office. At best, they simply don’t care who the made the call, but just see an opportunity to continue their histrionic commentary on the governor. And of course that’s why they sent the e-mail exchange to you and Politico. (We didn’t know anything about this web-posting until Julia O’Malley e-mailed me about it yesterday.)

Oh, and I’m having turkey for Christmas dinner.”

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[Cass]

7. Wow, that guy from Palin's office was really rude.

Not professional at all. I read the whole thing posted at the link and that guy is a nasty piece of work. You'd think someone in his position would act a bit more professionally.

:wow: